Announcements

Two attorneys from the Los Angeles office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Peter L. Haviland and Rex S. Heinke, this month are serving as program chairs for a CLE seminar titled Film & Television Law.
The program, sponsored by CLE International, will take place on Thursday and Friday, June 23 and24 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotelin Los...

The Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America this month is planning a CLE seminar titled Making Entity Choices.
The program will take place on Thursday, June 16 from 8 to 10 a.m. at 1001 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland.
Speakers will be Thomas J. Ubbing and James S. Aussem, both of Brouse McDowell LPA. Some of the topics they...

The Central Ohio Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America this month is offering a full-day seminar titled Ethics, Professionalism & Substance Abuse/What Your CEO Expects of You/How to Create a Practical Document Retention Policy and Protect the Attorney-Client Privilege.
The program will take place on Thursday, June 23 at the Columbus...

For human resources managers, in-house counsel, risk managers and small-business owners, employment law issues are among the most serious challenges. Because the frequency and severity of employment practice liability claims continue to rise, public and private companies of all sizes face catastrophic losses with shocking regularity.
AIG/National Union...

The Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA)this month has scheduled its 2005 Mid-Atlantic Region Diversity Dinner at which it will honor this year's regional Employers of Choice.
The event is set for Tuesday, June 14 at the JW Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. A reception will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m...

The Colorado Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America this month has scheduled a luncheon program titled Changing Your Outlook on Electronic Data: Guarding the Company's Electronic Gold Mine From Plaintiffs and Other Claim Jumpers.
The program will take place on Wednesday, June 15 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the offices of Moye Giles LLP, 16...

The Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America (DELVACCA) this month is hosting its third annual Spring Fling, a networking activity regarded as the chapter's premier social event.
The session will take place on Thursday, June 9 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ.
The event will feature new and...

WolfInstitute this month will continue its series of ongoing employment law seminars in Philadelphia.
The seminars take place at the WolfInstitute, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Each session begins at 9 a.m.
The courses are designed to give HR professionals, in-house counsel, benefits administrators and other managers information and skills to handle...

The Lawyer's Guide to Organizational Documents will be presented this month by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) in three locations across the state.
Programs will take place on Tuesday, June 14 at the PBI Conference Center, 5080 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, PA; on Wednesday, June 15 at the Conference Center at Mellon, 501 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, and...

The Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) this month will present a CLE seminar titled Labor Law in the Private Sector.
The program will take place on Friday, June 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:20 p.m. at the Conference Center at Mellon, 501 Grant Street, Pittsburgh.
The keynote speaker will be National Labor Relations Board Chairman Robert J. Battista, who will...

The Association of Corporate Counsel and the National Association of Corporate Directors this month are planning another presentation of What the Board Really Expects From the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
The program will take place on Wednesday, June 8 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m at the Chicago Club, 81 East Van Buren Street, Chicago.
The...

The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) and the Atlanta Legal Diversity Consortium, Inc. this month are sponsoring A Call to Action, the fourth Annual Symposium on Diversity in the Legal Profession.
The conference will take place on Tuesday, June 28 from noon to 5:30 p.m. at the Westin, Peachtree...

The New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE), the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association (NJCCA) and the New Jersey State Bar Association Environmental Law Committee this month are planning their annual Environmental Law Forum.
The conference will take place from Friday, June 24 to Sunday, June 26 at the Golden Inn Hotel & Resort...

Land use law continues to undergo significant changes. Numerous recent judicial decisions and regulations significantly affect the applications, boards and cases attorneys are currently handling.
To help attorneys keep abreast of recent changes, the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE) on Wednesday, June 15 will present a CLE...

The Association of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals this month has scheduled its 59th National Conference, an event featuring panels focusing on timely topics of interest and significant opportunities for peer networking.
The conference will take place from Wednesday, June 22 to Sunday, June 26 at the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa in...

Ford & Harrison LLP will present a seminar from 8:00 am to 10:30 am entitled Privacy Issues in Today's Electronic Workplace: Employer Rights and Obligations in an Orwellian World (What Corporate Counsel Need to Know)on Tuesday, May 31 at the Yale Club, Trumbull Room, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City. Two hours of general CLE credit will be offered...

A half-day Employment Law Conference sponsored by Littler Mendelson, P.C. in conjunction with the Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel will be held on Tuesday, May 24 at The Penn Club, 30 West 44th Street, New York City.
Following registration and continental breakfast beginning at 8 a.m., morning sessions will be devoted to...

The Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel next month will host a CLE seminar titled Pro Bono Work by In-House Counsel: Models and Ethical Considerations.
The program, co-sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York State Bar Associations President's Committee on Access to Justice, is set for...

The Lawyers Alliance for New York is planning a benefit for Wednesday, June 1 that includes a performance of the new Broadway musical hit Monty Python's Spamalot.
The evening will include a pre-theater cocktail reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Supper Club, 240 West e47th Street, New York City, and the performance of Spamalot beginning at 8 p.m. at...

WESFACCA, the Westchester/ Southern Connecticut Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America, on Wednesday, May 18 is offering a CLE seminar titled To Incorporate and How (and Where) - That Is the Question. This is a date change for the program originally scheduled for Aril 15.
Some of the discussion topics to be addressed at this morning...

New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association's full-day conference, Legal Express SuperCourse, will be presented on Thursday, May 12 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the New Brunswick Hyatt, Two Albany Street, New Brunswick, NJ. Registration and breakfast will begin at 8:30 a.m. The event will culminate with NJCCA's Annual Cocktail Reception from 6 to 8 p.m., an...

While disputes over trade secrets and restrictive covenants are conceptually distinguishable, they often are intertwined, as is the case when a company is losing a key executive to the direct competition or, conversely, seeking to hire an attractive candidate who may be bound by restrictive covenants in an employment agreement with a competitor. In these...

The Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel and the firm of Hunton & Williams LLP this month are offering a CLE seminar titled Challenge, Solutions and Compliance Over Accessing and Securing Data.
The program, co-sponsored by the International Privacy Committee of the New York State Bar Association's International Law &...

The Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel and the firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP this month are planning a CLE seminar titled Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success.
The program is scheduled for Tuesday, May 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. at The Penn Club, 20 West 44th Street, New York City.
The session...

The Corporate Counsel and Commercial and Federal Litigation sections of the New York State Bar will hold a joint spring meeting in Saratoga Springs, New York the weekend of Friday-Sunday, May 13-15.
The focus of the meeting will be to examine the role of the jury in commercial cases. The program will also include an update on antitrust developments of...